JOHN McDONNELL vowed Labour will “end neoliberalism” as he addressed a 3,000-strong May Day rally in Glasgow yesterday.
The shadow chancellor also pledged to repeal the Trade Union Bill and called for “class unity” across the nations of Britain in the face of the “rotten Tory government.” Thunderous applause greeted Mr McDonnell when he brought greetings from the “socialist leader of the Labour Party.”
And he said:“Austerity has not been a political necessity but a political choice and we now have a historic opportunity to end it, reverse the cuts and ensure our social services are fully paid for by ensuring social justice in taxation.”
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more


